Important News

A storm, avvful In its terror and total in its work of destruction vviped out the town of Winona, on the Current river branch of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Meraphis railway in Miannon eounty, Mo. , at 11 o'clock at mght. It is kncwn that eleven persons lost their lives and eight men are missing. Vivid flashes of lightning pierced the downpour which came like the fiills of A ia gara. Houses were smashed and lnindreds of men, women and ehildren were dashed abont like corks in the water. It was like a shipwreck. In all thirty buildings were destroycl. The total loss is not less than SsO.OOO. AVinona has a population of 050. A cyclone wliich strxick Baxter Springs, Kas., killed five people outright and two othera were injured and are not expected to live. A dozen people were seriously injured, Cooper ifc llodgkirk s dry goods store was destroyed, the Methodist, Christian and colored churches were blown down and a dozen residenees aud as many barns were totally wrecked. The freight and passeng-er depots were almost demolished and mueh damage to freight resulted. Several fine residences and many small houses and outbuildings were blown away. In the Kansas & Texas Coal company mine at Weir City, wheremany miners were engaged, the water rushed in with such rapidity that the miners barely eseaped with their lives. Every mule in the shaft was drowned. One person was drowned at Columbus and two at Ottawa, Kas. At Van Huren, Ark., a mother and her babe were drowned. A family of five was encamped on the bank of Fish Creek in the Judian territory. Nothing of their belongings were iound exeept a part of a wagon on a pile of driftwood. At Thomasville, Mo. , where the rainfall was four inches in one hour, five persons were lost. Three at Fayetteville, Ark.; one at Paola, Kas, one at Richards, Kas. This gives a known and probable loss of 43 lives. This total will be increased when the reeeding- waters permit a thorough I search. The loss in property can be placed in the millions. Dwellings, fences and farm buildings were carried off and highway and railroad bridges swept away. together with a vast amount of crops, both growing and stored. A heavy storm passed over Lake Geneva, Wis., which unroofed buildings and demoralized shade trees. The hail broke a largue amount of glass and ruined corn, oats and what little fruit was left by the spring frosts. The steam launch Dispatch was chartered just before the storm by a party consisting1 of Father Hogan and Miss Hogan, and Dr. Franz. assistant superintendent of the Elgin, 111., insane asylum, his wife and child. The boat was in charge of John Preston. They were caught by the storm, and the boat was swamped and all on board were drowned. One of the most furious wind and rain storms known for years passed over Chicago, doing much damage. Charles Klein, John Ross and Charles L. Shook, who were out in a boat when the storm burst, and no trace has been found of them and it is thought that they were lost. Great damage was done throughout the city. Windows ot many large stores were blown in and heavy damage done to goods by drivinir rain. Severa] housesinthe outlying districts were struck by lightning ;ml seriously damaged. Tivo small residences were completely destroyed. August lioedlow was killed. Dpatehes f rom many points in the central and northern portions of Illinois and southern iseonsin teil of furious storms. .Mihvaukce reports wires down in nearly every direction, but meager rejorts show that a severe storm aproaclïing a cyclone passed over the southwestern part of the state, probably doing serious damage. It is reorted four men who were out in a oat near Waukegan were drowned. Cantón, Kas., was struck by a tornado and great damage was done. Hany houses and barns were entirely demolished and a score of persons are reported injured. After three days of terrible heat El leno, Okla. T. ,was visited by a terrific vind and sandstorm. The North Methodist Afriean church, the residences of Fred Hulz and M. Wilson. and the Texas livery stables were demolished and many other buildings vere damaged. Several people were aiufully injui-ed. Smoky Hill river at Marquette, Cas. . overflowed lts banks and on the outh side extends back to the bluffs two miles distant. The water rose to the second story of the houses nearest the river and some of the people were taken out in boats. A storm at Anselm, X.Y., one to two miles wide, damaged 30,000 or 40,000 acres of grain, threw buildings from their foundations and deluged the sountry. Four inches of rain feil in a few hours. Naval Constructor Hanscom, of the Boston navy yard, has succeeded in rendering woo.l üreproof. Dr. ,T. II. Kellog-g. of the Uattle Creek sanitarium, is to start a big medical college at Chicago. o Bob Fitzsimmons was acquitted of the murder of Con Riordan, his sparring partner, at Syraeuse, N. Y. Charles D. Sherwood, ex-lieuteuantsrovernor of Minnesota, was found dead, floating in tlie lake at Chicago. Suicide. Eleven of the Seventh Day Adventists on trial at Dayton, Tenn., charged vvith working on Sunday, were found juilty and iined. They refused to pay ind went to jail to work out their anea. Frederick Hellinann, a well-to-do iuason contractor of Chicago, killed his wife, his four children aüd himself by closing his house as tightly as possible while the family slept and then torning on the g-as without lijfhtirg it.